US officials: 'Iran's breakout period will be less than a year'

The Biden administration expects a restored nuclear deal with Iran would leave the Islamic Republic capable of amassing enough nuclear fuel for a bomb in significantly less than a year, a shorter time frame than the one that underpinned the 2015 agreement, US officials told The Wall Street Journal on Thursday.

The officials said that administration officials concluded late last year that Iran’s nuclear program had advanced too far to re-create the roughly 12-month so-called “breakout period” of the 2015 agreement.